And truly, there could not be a better representative of the No Labels ethos of "everyone please be nice to each other" than Joe Manchin, the lawmaker so dedicated to mature political discourse and personal civility that he appeared in a campaign ad in which he literally shot a bill he didn't like with a gun.
In February, Parliament shot down a bill to set up a special Kenyan court for perpetrators of the post-election violence, and in recent days, lawmakers have indicated that the votes are still not there.
In North Carolina, the House Rules Committee shot down a bill that would legalize medical marijuana in some instances and they did this after debating for just 20 minutes.
The city's delay in releasing the dash camera footage of the shooting spurred a bill currently being considered by the state senate that would require the expedited release of future video, barring a judge's order to hold it.
Most Democrats aren't as deranged as Joe Manchin, the senator from West Virginia who literally shot a bullet through the House bill as a shameless bit of pandering to his state's powerful coal lobby, but the party has a growing track record of ducking action on global warming.
In the months following the April 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, lawmakers passed a bill meant to increase the number of records entered into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
During last year's legislative session and long before the Arapahoe school shooting, Harvey sponsored a bill with two other Republicans that would have allowed public school district boards to decide whether to allow their faculty members to carry concealed weapons.
Meanwhile Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) has responded to Saturday's shooting by drafting a bill that would allow members of Congress to carry concealed weapons in Washington, D.C. Gohmert's bill comes just a month after state Republican leaders in New Hampshire moved to lift a ban on guns and other dangerous weapons in the New Hampshire Statehouse complex.
In an era in which abortion doctors still get shot, the bill might as well be called the Open Season on Doctors Act.
A Republican state legislator in Missouri has posted a video to YouTube that shows local gun range customers shooting at a copy of a bill that would enact an assault weapons ban in the state.
